“Another missing report has just come in. We don’t have much information but we will keep you updated on the progress of the investigation. This is Channel 8 with your news coverage.”        

The television turned off after that like it always does after we watch the news. For the past two years that I have been here, this has been our routine. We stay on a strict routine so we don’t become corrupt like the rest of the world. Things could be worst for us or at least that is what some of the others who have been here longer said. I see their point but only to an extent. I know they probably blocked out how we got here but I still remember.  

 Still haunted by the memories that led me to wake up to a similar news broadcast. I was terrified but who wouldn’t be especially after the last thing I remember seeing. I still think waking up after that was worse though. Thinking about it now I can only imagine the poor guy that gets stuck explaining what happened and what’s going to happen. I almost wonder who I should feel worse for.

        Now I’m forced to think "if only". If only I listened to my mother when she told me to leave that city. If only I changed one little thing I did that day then maybe I wouldn’t be here. What I wouldn’t give to have that again; if only I could repeat that day, just one more time. If only I had listened then maybe I wouldn’t be here now.

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